Could not create directory '//.ssh'. SSH + keys + Win2K + UNIX (using BASH)

From: Phil Powell (soazine@erols.com)
Date: 04/30/02 

From: "Phil Powell" <soazine@erols.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 06:00:39 GMT

I am attempting to use an install of SSH that I have to attempt a secure ssh
connection to a remote site with an application (in Java) that I am
attempting to jumpstart.

I am using ssh with ssh-keygen to generate public keys in my c:/.ssh
folder - and I have used MOUNT to set the user type for / to binmode.

However, every attempt to use ssh, with correctly developed public keys and
correct $HOME type, results in the following error:

Could not create directory '//.ssh'.

How can I work around this problem? I am running Windows 2000 with bash.exe
to generate a UNIX environment to run SSH.

Thanx
Phil

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